Was the forecast right for Philadelphia on Sat Sep 5?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the PHL observations
11 days out, 4 models put Philadelphia's Sat Sep 5 high anywhere from 82° to 98°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 83°. The day verified at 84° against the PHL observations — cloudy.
AIGFS landed closest, off by 0.0°. ECMWF ran 2° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Sat Sep 5 as each model's runs approached it — the last archived run per day. NBM and The Spread's own blend are consensus products and stay out of these ranges and rankings; the Philadelphia scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11d · 2026-08-25 | 82° | 88° | 87° | — | 98° | — | — | 82–98° |
| 10d · 2026-08-26 | 90° | 80° | 92° | — | 78° | — | — | 78–92° |
| 9d · 2026-08-27 | 81° | 92° | 78° | 88° | 88° | — | — | 78–92° |
| 8d · 2026-08-28 | 81° | 81° | 82° | 79° | 84° | — | — | 79–84° |
| 7d · 2026-08-29 | 89° | 81° | 81° | 80° | 86° | — | — | 80–89° |
| 6d · 2026-08-30 | 82° | 80° | 79° | 79° | 82° | 86° | 85° | 79–86° |
| 5d · 2026-08-31 | 82° | 82° | 84° | 82° | 82° | 83° | 83° | 82–84° |
| 4d · 2026-09-01 | 82° | 83° | 81° | 81° | 79° | 80° | 83° | 79–83° |
| 3d · 2026-09-02 | 83° | 84° | 82° | 80° | 82° | 82° | 83° | 80–84° |
| 2d · 2026-09-03 | 82° | 84° | 83° | 84° | 84° | 81° | 84° | 81–84° |
| 1d · 2026-09-04 | 83° | 84° | 82° | 83° | 85° | 83° | 83° | 82–85° |
| actual | 84° |
Read it honestly
This is one date, not a league table. A model can win a day it deserved to lose; rankings only mean something over a window. For that, see which model has been most accurate in Philadelphia — or every city The Spread scores.
Forecasts are what each model's archived runs said at the time, captured at The Spread's sweep times — never reconstructed after the fact. Truth is the PHL observations. The actual values are the ones in hand when this receipt was settled, usually 2 days after the date; a correction published after that is not carried into it. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.